Full-Time
Assistant Critical Facilities Manager
T5 Data Centers
501-1,000 employees
Build-to-suit data center development and operations
No salary listed
Cheyenne, WY, USA
In Person
On-site in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Bachelor's
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- Bachelors Degree (B.A. or B.S.) from an accredited college or university in a major relevant field of study or equivalent being 3-5 + years experience in mission critical environments, required
- Minimum 1-year direct management of non-exempt shift based employees, required
- Minimum 1-year experience in a colocation data center environment, preferred
- Experience establishing a new colocation data center or data hall, preferred
- Technical school with an emphasis on mission-critical operations, high-performance manufacturing, or relevant military operations (US Navy a plus), preferred
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills required for interacting with internal employees and leaders, and external contractors and customers, required
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills required for understanding and evaluating complex problems, including analyzing a problem, identifying solutions, and selecting the best solution, required
- Solid understanding of budgets and financial topics, required
- Able to prioritize work based on business and customer demands, required
- Able to work within middle to upper levels of the organization, required
- Able to articulate concepts and ideas to a non-technical audience, required
- Participate in and contribute to customer-requested business reviews and audits, required
- Able to understand and train others on electrical and mechanical systems, as well as other technical aspects of facilities management, required
- Able to read and understand complex drawings, systems and other documentation, required
- Experience creating, managing, and maintaining service catalogs and SLAs, required
- Knowledge of critical systems monitoring and change control, required
- Experience creating and managing a critical infrastructure preventive maintenance program, required
- Takes responsibility for actions and is transparent in dealing with internal and external partners / stakeholders, required
- Has a "can-do" service attitude who is conscientious and takes personal pride in their work, preferred
- Assist the CFM in managing the operation and maintenance of critical and non-critical data center infrastructure, equipment, and systems
- Assist the CFM in building a staff of CFTs with the necessary skill sets to accomplish data center operations that deliver total availability (100% uptime) while minimizing risks for T5s customers
- Manage power and cooling capacity and monitor environmental conditions within the data halls
- Work shifts to support 24x7 data center operations, have flexibility in work hours to cover other shifts and support maintenance activities, as needed
- Provide on-call support and respond to all data center emergencies 24x7, including on site response outside of scheduled shifts
- Resolve all electrical, mechanical and Fire Protection System issues in the data center while minimizing risk and communicate issues to management and customers
- Assist the CFM in a lead-capacity coordinating data center construction and commissioning and overseeing the transition from construction to sustainable operations
- Review results from preventive maintenance inspections and provide guidance on how to address issues found
- Determine actionable items to address Quality Control review results
- Assume an ownership stake in the ongoing evolution and operation of the facility Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
- Ensure that T5FM standards for using the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) use are being adhered to by all staff
- Oversee accuracy and completeness of the CMMS, produce operational reports as needed
- Enforce strict adherence to customer SLAs and change control activities
- Assist as requested with the development and enforcement of Data Center standards and policies
- Responsible for scheduling, coordinating, and reviewing work handled by outside contractors and vendors
- Assist with managing client relationship and growing the business at assigned site
- Assist and plan with clients on facilities issues and resolutions
- Manage access to the Data Center(s) ensuring that the appropriate access control lists are maintained and reviewed regularly
- Assist the CFM in managing site safety and environmental compliance
- Assist the CFM in performing resource planning, cost estimation, and budget development
- Assist in managing the facilities budget
- Assist CFM with managing facilities support and operations staff
- In the absence of the CFM, assume a leadership role with limited authority
- Assist with site-tours for current and future customers as-required
- Assist with coordination with all other groups (development, marketing, etc.) as needed
- Manage CFT work-schedules and assignments
- Manage special projects as assigned
- Adhere to all federal and local safety laws
- Complete other such duties consistent with your role as you may be assigned by T5FM management
- Minimum 1-year experience in a colocation data center environment, preferred
- Experience establishing a new colocation data center or data hall, preferred
- Technical school with an emphasis on mission-critical operations, high-performance manufacturing, or relevant military operations (US Navy a plus), preferred
- Has a "can-do" service attitude who is conscientious and takes personal pride in their work, preferred
T5 Data Centers builds and operates data centers for customers who are advancing AI and technology. They offer build-to-suit data center solutions across their campuses and can bring construction and facility management services into the customer’s own data center, providing flexible options for design, capital expenditure, and fit-out. The company runs a lifecycle approach with transparent communication and strong project governance, aiming to deliver reliable, long-term performance. With nearly twenty years of experience, T5 focuses on managing execution and operations risks to safely fulfill commitments—capturing their goal of “Forever On” performance for customers.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Debt Financing
Total Funding
$183M
Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia
Founded
2008
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- T5 raised $8 billion with QuadReal in 2025 and sought $2 billion more in 2026.
- Bitfarms selected T5 in August 2025 for Panther Creek HPC/AI development.
- T5 kept hiring in 2026, with Revelio tracking roughly 593 employees and 138 openings.
What critics are saying
- Grayslake opponents expect a lawsuit after T5 paused wetlands permitting on August 3, 2026.
- Chicago Tribune says T5 @ Chicago IV targets up to twenty buildings and 2027 construction.
- T5’s Illinois expansion faces permit delays, local backlash, and multibillion-dollar execution risk.
What makes T5 Data Centers unique
- T5 pairs development, construction, and operations under one platform, simplifying AI campus delivery.
- T5 repurposes legacy shells like Charlotte II into liquid-cooled, AI-ready campuses.
- QuadReal’s $8 billion platform backs T5’s 5GW scale strategy across U.S. markets.
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↑ 15%T5 Services, a data centre construction and operations firm, has appointed Mason Thornburg as chief financial officer to support its expansion. The company currently serves over 90 third-party facilities globally and generates more than $1.6 billion in annual revenue. Thornburg brings over 20 years of finance and operations leadership experience across construction, infrastructure and real estate sectors. He most recently served as CFO at Vision Hospitality Group, where he led enterprise finance strategy, treasury and operational planning. As CFO, Thornburg will report to president and COO Tom Mertz and oversee accounting, financial reporting, treasury and forecasting across T5's construction and operations businesses. The appointment follows T5's recent strategic realignment into two focused operating entities.
Data centre of the month: T5 Data Centers, T5 @ Charlotte II. Developed by T5 Data Centers, the data centre is one of the company's legacy buildings dating back to 2008. Its legacy status means that the company can take the shell building, originally designed for small colocation deployment, and create an AI-ready environment. In order to deliver additional power to the data centre campus to support AI demand, T5 Data Centers partnered with Duke Power. This is to turn the data centre asset into what Robbie Sovie, executive vice president of development at T5 Data Centers, called "an AI scale solution with liquid-to-chip cooling to support a 1,000w/sf solution". He added: "Duke Power was able to support T5 with ample power for growth. The T5 @ Charlotte Park has been a successful data centre campus with numerous built to suit solutions delivered to Fortune 25 companies." The strategic importance of Charlotte. North Carolina is becoming a more important data centre market. In particular, the city of Charlotte has slowly been emerging as a well-known technology hub for several years, having become a desirable location for technology companies, entrepreneurs and IT professionals. Likewise, renewable energy options and tax incentives have enticed the data centre industry. T5 Data Centers selected Charlotte for its data centre for a broad range of reasons, having strongly established a presence in the region. "Most notably, hyperscale customers [have been] building data centres within a 50-mile radius of T5's Kings Mountain campus," Sovie explained. Having been in Charlotte for nearly twenty years, T5 Data Centers is has built significant partnerships to support local communities close to T5 @ Charlotte II. "Our community support includes providing backpacks and school supplies for elementary school kids," Sovie said. "During the holidays, we also get involved with the KMPD Christmas bike drive, donating bicycles annually. We have also provided school gym equipment and iPads to the high school students." Transforming legacy into opportunity. All of T5 Data Centers' data centre projects are purpose-built facilities that feature robust design, redundant and reliable power and telecommunications, in addition to 24-hour staff to support mission-critical computing applications. * Power densities support up to 50kW per rack * Configured with N+1 redundancy * Dual 100kV transmission lines * On-site Duke Energy 180MVA multi-transformer substation * Concrete-encased duct bank throughout the park * Low $0.048/kWh power cost * Air and liquid cooling systems for optimal performance As AI demand continues to surge, the need for scalable and efficient infrastructure is only continuing to grow. Liquid cooling therefore is continually touted as a more sustainable solution for the data centre industry to confront the power and cooling challenges of AI, enabling companies to support more powerful AI hardware while maintaining energy efficiency. At T5 at Charlotte II, the company's design includes high efficiency closed loop chillers that require zero water usage to cool high-density loads. "The cooling design includes liquid-to-chip cooling solutions to support high-density loads of 1,000w/sf+," Sovie said. "Our annualised power usage effectiveness (PUE) is in the low 1.2 range." Notably, the campus' unique offering is its ability to design for the AI boom within a legacy data centre. "Our ability to design for the AI revolution has been proven with our T5 @ Charlotte campus," he said. "We've been able to take lessons learned from this deployment and apply them to our 1GW+ solution for the AI world to come."
Serverfarm eyes $589M loan. Three recently upgraded data centers will back the notes. Serverfarm is seeking to secure a $589 million ABS financing package backed by three of its data centers, according to an S&P Global presale report. The agreement is expected to close on November 20. The deal includes a $543 million senior note and a $46 million loan, both with an anticipated repayment date of five years and a 30-year maturity date. The company's data centers are in Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta. The owner will use the funds to repay part of existing debt. The facilities have a total capacity of 50 megawatts - fully leased, with in-place rents at market rate - while their combined value was appraised at $808 million, the same report shows. All three data centers were renovated within the past three years. LAX1 is a 117,500-square-foot property in El Segundo, Calif., with 17.3 megawatts of capacity. It features N+1 hybrid air handlers cooling systems and is connected to Tier 1 and dark fiber providers. Serverfarm acquired it for $71 million from T5 Data Centers back in 2021, which marked its entry in the Los Angeles market. CH1 is an eight-story, 443,000-square-foot data center in Chicago. It has 32 megawatts of power, water-cooled chiller plant systems and utility power provided through 12 feeds originating from four separate substations. The Atlanta data center, or ATL1, is in Suwanee, Ga. Totaling 153,000 square feet and 12 megawatts of capacity, the property includes air handlers with pumped refrigerant economization cooling systems. It provides connections to more than 7,000 miles of fiber in the Atlanta metro area, as well as Dallas, Miami and Washington, D.C. In May 2023, Manulife Investment Management, on behalf of its Manulife Infrastructure Fund II and affiliates, entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire the majority interest in Serverfarm. The strategic transaction was designed to push the data center owner and operator's global expansion. In September of the same year, the transaction was completed. Last year, Serverfarm acquired two campuses in Houston, marking its entry into the Texas market. The purchase was funded through equity commitments provided by Manulife, along with minority shareholders. This enabled the company to expand its colocation capabilities by 500 megawatts. Data centers, an investor powerhouse. AI data center REITs saw a significant increase in performance last year that is still going strong today. After the Stargate Initiative, unveiled by the White House at the start of this year, investor activity ramped up even more, as multiple already active players increased their capital commitments. One recent example is the $40 billion deal involving Aligned Data Centers, which is currently owned by Macquarie Asset Management. The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership, a consortium of investors including Microsoft and NVIDIA, among others, is seeking to purchase all equity in the data center operator by the first half of next year. In September, Blackstone-owned QTS Realty Trust was looking to close a $599.8 million ABS financing package backed by its Phoenix data center project. The facility is part of QTS' multi-building campus currently under construction, set to comprise 210 megawatts of capacity.
Bitfarms partners with T5 Data Centers to expand HPC and AI capabilities.
T5 Data Centers has announced the acquisition of its CHI V data center site in Elk Grove Village.